Translation of "Das nord-süd-gefälle" in English

But traditional contradictions, such as the gap between North and South and the transatlantic tensions, have quashed these goals.

The same could be said of the global North-South disparity.

As far as transport is concerned to reject this programme is to hold back Europe.

High densities of small and mediumsized units are concentrated in northern Italy, Portugal and Spain,with very low densities in Finland, Sweden and in the UK.

Nor must the new transatlantic marketplace lead to a widening of the gap between north and south.

I am talking about the North-South divide that is currently taking root in the European Union.

The north/south divide is clearly visible in both Italy and Spain, and the east/west divide in Germany.

The responsepatterns plainly illustrate the influence of personal circumstance andexperience on learning context preferences.

The problem is worsened by the widening of the rift between north and south in the European Community.

Hannes Swoboda continued by addressing the growing north-south divide in Europe:

He had the capacity to bring people together from different backgrounds and opinions, notably across the North-South divide.

The demographic North-South-divide becomes particularly obvious when comparing the northernmost and southernmost communities:

It seems that food production per head of the human race is diminishing; that drinking water resources per head of population are diminishing; that the north-south divide is widening; that the global temperature is still climbing and that, in general terms, the world we live in is even more unsustainable now than it was five years ago.

At the Okinawa Summit a year ago in July G8 took the view that the most central challenge facing the world at the moment is the wide gulfs between north and south in terms of technical capacity and know-how, in other words the 'digital divide' .

Madam President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, I believe the G8 summit in Genoa will come to be regarded as a milestone in our political life and will probably be seen as marking a turning point in European and international political life. This is not, unfortunately, because of the joint undertakings given by the richest countries in the world to respond to the serious problems facing the poorest countries - and let me point out that the North-South gulf has never been so wide - but rather because of the particular context in which this summit took place.

Issues raised were among other: whether the Nagoya Protocol covers patents, the ethical aspects of benefits from genetic resources, the north-south gap and the issue of trust.

No account is taken of the opening up towards Central and Eastern Europe, or the political developments in South Africa.

Map 2.2.1-C.1 clearly illustrates the division between the northern and southern regions of the Community, the exception being the Spanish regions, where the proportion of underemployed farm managers is less than 10%.

These declarations describe the major challenges facing the world at the start of the 21st century, covering the state of the world economy and the opportunities created by new technologies in areas such as information, communications and life sciences, but rejecting segregation between north and south.

There is the problem of sales of quotas, some countries having opted for formula A and other for formula B. There are also the fat content quotas, which puts the poor old Jersey cow at a disadvantage, given the very high fat content in her milk, the problem of the black market, the difficulties of controlling the system, and the inequality between the North and the South.

We are all the more surprised that the answers to these plans show a great similarity and do not go far enough into the specific situation of the individual region.